Hawa Hawa - Nabarun Bhattacharya

A Collection Of Inventive And Surprising Short Stories From One Of Indias Most Prominent Countercultural Writers. In This Wildly Inventive Collection Of Nabarun Bhattacharyas Stories, We Meet Characters Such As A Trigger-happy Cop In An Authoritarian Police State, A Man Who Holds On To A Piece Of Rope From A Deadly Noose, A Retired Revolutionary Thrilled By Delusions Of Grandeur, And People Working For A Corporation That Arranges Lavish Suicides For A Price. Ranging From Scathing Satires Of Society To Surreal Investigations Of Violence And Love, These Stories Are Also A Window Onto The Political And Social Climate In Bengal, Tracing Both Pan-indian Developments Like The 1975 Emergency And Local Ones Like Militant-leftist Naxalism And The Decades-long Communist Reign In The State.